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    William Farr CB (30 November 1807 – 14 April 1883) was a British epidemiologist, regarded as one of the founders of medical statistics. William Farr was...
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  • William Farr was an epidemiologist and medical statistician. William Farr is also the name of: William C. Farr, U.S. politician William Farr School, Lincolnshire...
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    Jamie Farr (born Jameel Joseph Farah; July 1, 1934) is an American comedian and actor. He is best known for playing Corporal Klinger, a soldier who tried...
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  • William Farr School, formally William Farr C of E Comprehensive School, is a Church of England academy school for 11 to 18-year-olds in the village of...
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    Herald Examiner reporter William Farr reported in an article that Manson had planned to murder Elizabeth Taylor and Frank Sinatra. Farr was summoned by judge...
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    be preventable by cleansing and scouring of the body and items. Dr. William Farr, the assistant commissioner for the 1851 London census, was an important...
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    the youngest of the eight children of Mary Elizabeth Whittal and Dr. William Farr. She was named after nursing pioneer Florence Nightingale by her father...
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    organism presumed to be the cause of the disease. As originally employed by William Farr, of the British Registrar-General's department, the term included the...
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  • Farr's law is a law formulated by Dr. William Farr when he made the observation that epidemic events rise and fall in a roughly symmetrical pattern. The...
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    and the Strettons (to the south). The service runs Monday-Saturday. William Farr (1807–1883), epidemiologist and one of the founders of medical statistics...
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    found at the site of the former RAF Dunholme Lodge to the south-west. William Farr School was opened inside the parish as a secondary modern school in 1952...
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    unpleasant for most of the public to contemplate. It was not until 1866 that William Farr, one of Snow's chief opponents, realised the validity of his diagnosis...
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  • Willam Farr Christensen (August 27, 1902 – October 14, 2001) was an American ballet dancer, choreographer and founder of the San Francisco Ballet and Ballet...
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    with the GRO in the 19th century, although he was never its head, was William Farr. The GRO supplies copies of birth, marriage, civil partnership certificates...
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  • Farr is a surname, and may refer to: Bruce Farr (born 1949), New Zealand yacht designer Charles Farr (builder) (c. 1812–1888), timber merchant and builder...
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    William Henry Beveridge, 1st Baron Beveridge, KCB (5 March 1879 – 16 March 1963) was a British economist and Liberal politician who was a progressive...
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    daughter Annie to a Quaker named William Farr caused some controversy in the early history of Moreland Township. William Farr came from a strict Quaker family...
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    travel through the air and infect individuals, and thus cause cholera. Dr William Farr, the commissioner for the 1851 London census and a member of the General...
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    train the fifers. The first leader of the United States Marine Band was William Farr, listed in historical records as having served as Drum Major from January...
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  • educated at Scothern Primary School (now Ellison Boulters Academy), William Farr School, Welton, and Yarborough School (now Lincoln Castle Academy), Lincoln...
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  • William C. Farr (March 13, 1844 – February 14, 1921) was the fifth Mayor of Bayonne, New Jersey, from 1891 to 1895. Born on March 13, 1844, in Gettenbach...
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    film With Six You Get Eggroll is notable for fans of M*A*S*H because Jamie Farr and Christopher appear in it together, both playing hippies, five years before...
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    international 'great demographers' like Adolphe Quetelet (1796–1874), William Farr (1807–1883), Louis-Adolphe Bertillon (1821–1883) and his son Jacques...
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    London: William Thomas: 68. 15 May 1839. Farr 1958, pp. 86–87. Farr 1958, p. 87. Farr 1958, p. 92. Farr 1958, p. 88. Farr 1958, p. 95. Farr 1958, p. 89...
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    Lancet, relating details of the investigation into the incident by Dr William Farr, stated that his report "will render irresistible the conclusions at...
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  • Alticus simplicirrus (category Taxa named by William Farr Smith-Vaniz)
    Alticus simplicirrus, the Marquesan rockstripper, is a species of combtooth blenny found in the central Pacific Ocean, around the Marquesas Islands. This...
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  • William Henry Sykes 1865–1867 The Lord Houghton 1867–1869 William Ewart Gladstone 1869–1871 William Newmarch 1871–1873 William Farr 1873–1875 William...
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    William Ewart Gladstone FRS FSS (/ˈɡlædstən/ GLAD-stən; 29 December 1809 – 19 May 1898) was a British statesman and Liberal Party politician. In a career...
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    which they bestow on the moral dignity of our nature... Some, such as William Farr and Karl Marx, argued that Malthus did not fully recognize the human...
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  • Bathyblennius antholops (category Taxa named by William Farr Smith-Vaniz)
    Bathyblennius antholops is a species of combtooth blenny found in the eastern Atlantic Ocean, around the Gulf of Guinea. This deep-water species occurs...
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